Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?
On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 14:03 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On 02/09/12 01:55 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
> > On 9/2/2012 12:39 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
> >> On 9/2/2012 12:23 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:54:48 -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 9/2/2012 11:24 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>>>> You mean while system is idle? And it happens continously?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Yes, exactly.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I have a fairly beefy system, so it should be < 1% I would think.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> YOu can create a fresh new user and check if the nautilus process runs
> >>>>> stable from there.
> >>>>
> >>>> You're right. A test user appears to have no problem under GNOME3,
> >>>> full
> >>>> desktop. Top shows no Nautilus tasks in the top 50, and ps ditto.
> >>>
> >>> Curious. Whatever is making dancing your CPU cycles there has to be
> >>> within your usual user's profile :-?
> >>>
> >>>>>>> What GNOME version are you using? Nautilus should be off (not
> >>>>>>> running) since gnome-shell unless you had it configure for handling
> >>>>>>> the desktop or you manually launched it.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The GNOME metapackages all say 3.0, but most of it is 3.4. It's all
> >>>>>> Wheezy.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Yup, Wheezy has been at 3.4 since time ago.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Is this relevant?: I'm running the 3.5-trunk kernel from
> >>>>>>>> experimental. Running it on assorted VMs with no problem.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hard to tell with the little info you provide :-)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> :) I am looking for a starting point.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Well, you can start by saying why there's a nautilus process
> >>>>> running in
> >>>>> your session :-)
> >>>>
> >>>> Your guess is as good as mine.
> >>>
> >>> I don't get it... I can of course make some guesses but you can confirm
> >>> which is best :-)
> >>>
> >>> Is either that..?
> >>>
> >>> a/ You manually launch nautilus to browse files.
> >>>
> >>> b/ You run gnome-fallback (gnome-classic), as this runs an instance of
> >>> nautilus by default.
> >>>
> >>> c/ You run gnome-shell and have the browser handling the desktop (this
> >>> also makes nautilus to be launched on login).
> >>>
> >>> d/ A mix of a/, b/ and/or c/
> >>>
> >>>>> Then, are you using any extensions for gnome-shell? And what happens
> >>>>> when you login with gnome-classical instead?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> No extensions beyond the standard Debian features. I run "Classic" by
> >>>> default. I have desktop icons enabled.
> >>>
> >>> (...)
> >>>
> >>> Ah, okay. Then let's take b/ as valid :-). Then you can compare the
> >>> results with gnome-shell.
> >>>
> >>> I rarely enter into the fallback mode in my wheezy system, let's see how
> >>> CPU resources is taking nautilus... (relogin) He, this is funny: I get a
> >>> 0% of CPU usage but nautilus is using 20 MiB of my ram ("res" value). In
> >>> fact, it's listed as the top memory hungry process here.
> >>>
> >>> Greetings,
> >>>
> >>
> >> Based on the various Google results, I am thinking that Nautilus has a
> >> serious set of bugs. It uses 1G of memory, which is horrendous, but
> >> another 22G become unavailable, form memleaks or something. Also, much
> >> low level disk activity but no swapping. Weird. I think it is running
> >> because desktop icons are enabled, I think that uses Nautilus to
> >> implement.
> >>
> >> I am going to temporarily retreat to another window manager and desktop
> >> for a while, and see if this bug gets fixed. Do a lot of Googling and
> >> follow the progress of this issue from a distance. Life's too short...
> >>
>
>
> Mark, about your Nautilus problems - I gave up on Nautilus (and on
> Gnome as a matter of fact) some time ago - My GUI file manager of
> preference is XFE...blazingly fast but based on QT I believe not on GTK.
> Perhaps not as versatile as Nautilus...but it gets the job done for me -
> YMMV - but most times is use Midnight Commander...from the CLI.
On Ubuntu Studio I'm using Xfce4 with Nautilus 3.4.2 and Thunar.
Nautlius doesn't need memory and doesn't need CPU resources, everything
is ok here.
For Debian testing, "wheezy". I experience GNOME 3 as a PITA, especially
if it should emulate GNOME 2 and in the future GNOME upstream will make
systemd a hard dependency, IMO this is insane, it already is insane that
pulseaudio is a hard dependency.
Xfce4 is similar to GNOME 2.
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